The Serpent Tattvas

The Serpent Tattvas

(elaborations on ‘the Serpent’ incorporating Shaivism)

The One = Possibility of Awareness or Not = A(x) and/or [0] 1) Non-Being = Not =0 2) Being = Awareness of Non-Being = A(0) 3) Consciousness = ‘I ’ = Awareness of Being = A(A(0)) 4) Self = ‘ I AM’ = Awareness of Consciousness = A(A(A(0))) 5)(i) The Serpent = ‘I am That’ = Awareness of Self = A(A(A(A(0)))) (ii) “ “ = ‘I am That’ = “ “ “ (iii) “ “ = ‘I am That’ = “ “ “ 6) Maya and Kanchukas = Separation and Limitation 7) Purusha & 8) Prakriti = separate ‘I’ and ‘me in my world’ The One ┐┐┐┐┐ ┐┐┐┐┐┐┐

1) Non-Being (Void) - 2) Being (Plenum/Paramashiva) ┐┐┐┐┐ ┐┐┐┐┐┐┐

3) Shiva - 4) Shakti (I AM)/Self ┐┐┐┐┐ ┐┐┐┐┐┐┐

5) I

am

That

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│ I

THAT

THAT

I

┐ 6) Maya & Kanchukas

7) Purusha -

8) Prakriti

Comments: (a) The algebraic expressions on the right show a very neat recursive pattern with one fundamental function, awareness A(x), and one starting place – the Void. Both of these are made possible by the One. (b) I see no need for separate tattvas at tattva 5). The separate Ishvara, Sadashiva and Suddhavidya Tattvas of Shaivism are incorporated into one looping serpent 5) (i) – (iii). It is represented by one algebraic structure – there is a deep esoteric reason why exactly 4 iterations of A(x) (and no more) are needed here…(c) The following equivalences illustrate the comprehensive nature of the Serpent Tattvas – the numbers refer to the equivalent Serpent tattva(s).

Equivalences Kashmir Shaivism 2) 3) 4) 5)

Paramashiva Shiva - Prakasha Shakti – Vimarsha (i) Sadashiva (ii) Ishvara (iii) Suddhavidya

(I AM) (I am That) (I am That) (I am That)

Vedanta 5) Brahman 6) Maya 7) & 8) Purusha & Prakriti

Samkhya 7) Purusha 8) Prakriti

Plotinus The One = The One 4) Divine Intellect = Logos 5) World Soul = Nous 7) & 8) Nature

Buddhism 1) Nirvana/ Shunya 6) Maya 7) & 8) self in Samsara

Christian Mysticism 4) 5) 6) 7)

The Godhead … or, ‘via negativa’ 1) The Trinity : 5)(i) Father (ii) Son (iii) Holy Spirit Satan The embodied Soul 8) The World (vale of sorrows/sin)